Some Considerations about Why I Wrote an Academic Novel
Some Considerations about Why I Wrote an Academic Novel

Summary/Abstract: "The Marvelous Technique" is the result of my university years. After having read quite a lot of academic writing I realized that academic criticism of the academy itself is unusual. Academics used to criticize society but who criticizes the Academy? While I was researching this particular subject I discovered a bunch of novelists (many of them also university teachers but not all) who strengthened all my suspicions: Kingsley Amis, David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury, John Barth, Jonathan Lethem and many others. All these novelists and writers, through satire, worked as contra-hegemonic figures against the university ideal. So, after all, it wasn't the academics but fiction writers who, in one way or another, work for the university who criticize the university system.

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